A Clash of Royal Proportions: The Competitions Begin

Chapter 4

When they arrived back at the palace they put their horses in the stables. Selena fixes her clothing, puts her mask and hood back on as she nodded to the others while putting up a barrier around her new mother, and they did the same.

When they were all ready they all headed inside the palace and headed to the throne room where they knew the queen was going to be. When they reached the hallway leading to the throne room the guards standing there halted their entrance.

"Halt!" Said the guards.

"Let me handle this one sister." Eris looked to Selena for approval, when she saw her nod she continued. "We are the queens' pups and we demand you let us pass."

"We cannot allow you four to enter the throne room." Said one of the guards.

"Are you two idiots or something. Why do you not sense that we are the queen's pups?" Selena replied growling.

One of the guards got right up to Selena's face and growled saying, "I don't care who you are, but we are the queens' royal guards. You four can not enter because you don't have the same scents as the queens' pups. So no matter what you think we will not let you pass."

"I've had enough; you will let us in now we will see our mother!" Doshi said growling getting ready to strike them with his claws.

"Enough!" Selena growled out and everyone present turned to look at her.

Selena raised her hand and with her powers pushed the guards out of the way knocking them out and they all headed inside. Once they were just about to enter the thrown room the guards woke up and came towards them. They quickly caught them bounding their hands together, and took them to see the queen.

Inside the throne room the queen was waiting for her pups to come back when there was a loud ruckus outside the room and waited to see what was going to happen. When the ruckus outside the room stopped in walked her guards with a group of people in their grasps.

"Your Majesty." One guard said as he stepped forward.

"What's going on here?" The queen asked from her thrown.

"My lady, we caught these youkai trying to enter the throne room to see you." The guard said as he waved his hand. When he did so the other guards threw the group to the ground and held them there.

"Not this again." Selena sighed and bowed her head.

"Just what I was thinking." Doshi says silently to her.

Queen Azume looked over each of the youkai on the floor to determine if she could tell who they were. When she couldn't she asked, "What business do you have with me?"

"Mother it's us!" Eris replied struggling in the guards grasp.

"Silence girl." One of the guards said while shocking her with something.

"These three here claim to be your pups majesty." The first guard said as he pointed to Doshi, Selena, and Eris.

"My pups?" The queen asked rising quickly from her thrown growling. "Untie their hands... Now!" The queen demanded trying to calm herself.

"Yes majesty." The guards replied as they did what they were told.

The guards untied all their hands and all of them stood waiting to see what the queen would do next.

"The three pups claiming to be mine come stand before me." The queen said.

Selena, Doshi, and Eris walked forward towards their mother, while Kasumi stood in shock that their own mother would do that to them. Azume went up to each pup and removed all of their clothing from around their faces, and looked into each of her pups eyes surprised that they returned.